Byzantine ecocriticism : women, nature, and power in the medieval Greek romance /

• Main Author: Goldwyn, Adam J. (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Ευρωπαϊκή λογοτεχνία; Λογοτεχνία, Μεσαιωνική; Ευρώπη > Ιστορία > 476-1492

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the...

Table of Contents:

• -- 1 Byzantine Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis
• 2 Zoomorphic and Anthomorphic Metaphors in the "Proto-Romance" Digenis Akritis
• 3 Rape, Consent, and Ecofeminist Narratology in the Komnenian Romances
• 4 Witches and Nature Control in the Palaiologan Romances and Beyond
• 5 Byzantine Posthumanism: Autpoiesis, Sympoiesis, and an Eco-Ethics of Sustainability.